Migration Assistant

[jumpinggrendel]

Hi There,

I just finished building / installing my first Hackintosh, went pretty smoothly; So now I have running Lion system. I have an mSata SSD (120G), I split it into 3 partitions - I plan on making this system triple-boot, so I want some SSD goodness for each OS. Since I only gave 40G to the Lion install, I added a 1TB Sata HDD, split it into 2 partitions, and set /Users as a mount point to one partition(did the same for an empty /Developer directory). Rebooted, tested, all good so far.

Now, I'd like to migrate from a Time Machine backup, restore my apps, user stuff, xcode, etc. Problem is, when I run Migration Assistant, it doesn't recognize that /Users and /Developer are on their own partitions, with ample space; It only recognizes the 40G available on the SSD, and won't complete the migration.

Can anyone tell me how I can work around this?

Thanks!
John

 

[powerpcg5]

Enable drive sharing, then just copy the apps/docs you need/want manually.... also don't forget to copy relevant files in /Library/Application Support, Preferences, PreferencePanes, /Applications, etc. so your program settings will carry over.

For email messages and attachments, (it's buried deep, just google for exact location), you can also copy them to your new Hack. (copy the whole directory structure)

This is how I did it on mine... some programs that require re-authorization may prompt you to re-enter serial# again, or re-authorize via internet again (since your NIC card has changed on the new PC).

 

[jumpinggrendel]

thanks for this good tip, worked fine although I used rsync.